The title is a German proverb which translates as "hit dogs bark" and means that people will react once they feel sufficiently threatened.

The proverb apparently applies to Phorm a UK company that wants to use Deep Packet Inspection to serve ads. They have been critizied for their plan, and I also wrote them a letter asking them to exempt drupal.org from their plans (besides an auto-reply no answer was received).

The title is a German proverb which translates as "hit dogs bark" and means that people will react once they feel sufficiently threatened.

The proverb apparently applies to Phorm a UK company that wants to use Deep Packet Inspection to serve ads. They have been critizied for their plan, and I also wrote them a letter asking them to exempt drupal.org from their plans (besides an auto-reply no answer was received).

This company has recently launched a website that complains loudly about alleged foul play against them.

You can read why DPI & Phorm are evil at Privacy International.

More resources can be found at No DPI.

Apparently the activism against DPI and Phorm's use of it have reached a level that compelled Phorm to launch their own website against it. They seem to fear for the success of their business model.

I guess everybody should try to understand both sides' arguments, but for me the use of DPI makes it quite clear that Phorm is not an acceptable solution for serving ads. I don't allow advertisers to look into my letters to decide which ads to put into my letterbox either.

Should the use of DPI spread, it will be neccessary to encrypt more traffic in order to protect one's privacy.